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review from the 2.1 issue of the SBBR.
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"Present in 1878 and early 1879 and then returning again to Mandalay in 1885 with British forces, James Alfred Colbeck, mission priest for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and latterly military chaplain, provides a unique look at the beginning and end of Thibaw's reign (1878-1885). The letters included were originally selected and edited by George H. Colbeck, mission priest at Mandalay and were published under the title of Letters from Mandalay, A Series of Letters For the...
Topics: Thibaw, Konbaung Dynasty, James Alfred Colbeck, Mandalay, British, Burmese, missionaries, SBBR,...
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First issue of the SBBR (published Spring 2003) contains articles by Anne Booth, Elizabeth Moore, and Francis Buchanan (reprint), a summary of a seminar by William Womack, documents, reviews of books, dissertation abstracts, and an archive report by Wil Dijk. Cover photo by Atsuko Naono. General editor Michael W. Charney (SOAS).
Topics: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, SBBR, Burma, Myanmar, SOAS, William Womack, Anne Booth, Elizabeth...
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This editorial introduction to the account of Nicolo de' Conti was written by Dr. Kennon Breazeale for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research in 2004.
Topics: Nicolo de' Conti, Kennon Breazeale, Burma, Myanmar, Pegu, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research
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This article, Crucible of War: Burma and the Ming in the Tai Frontier Zone (1382-1454), by Jon Fernquest focuses on the Burma/Chinese warfare nexus in the period after the decline of classical Pagan. It was published in the SOAs Bulletin of Burma Research in 2006.
Topics: Jon Fernquest, Burma, Myanmar, Laos, warfare, China, Ming dynasty, Yunnan, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of...
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"The following documents drawn from the reign of King Tharrawaddy are intended as one contribution of many forthcoming to the project of organizing and publishing the source accounts for one of the Kon-baung dynasty's most obscure, yet critical reigns. Thus, documents included have not been selected on the basis of their high rate of interest relative to other documents of the period, but rather more with the view of making the documentary record complete." Edited for the SOAS...
Topics: Tharrawaddy, Burma, Burmah, Konbaung Dynasty, Simons, Eugenio Kincaid, Amarapura, Karens, Burmese,...
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These three notes relating to the origin of the Burmese word "Talaing" were published shortly before World War I. It is hoped that they may be of some use to ongoing debates on "Mon" history. Edited by Michael W. Charney for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.
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LuÃs Vaz de Camões (c. 1524-1580), the famous Lisbon poet, composed Os Lusiades in 1572 to glorify the expedition and exploits of Vasco da Gama in the Indian Ocean. It is a lengthy and epic poem, consisting of ten cantos, the portion relating to mainland Southeast Asia limited to a portion of the last of these. Only this portion is reproduced below. The chief utility of this information for the historian is that it helps us to understand how much, by 1572, Portuguese at home knew about...
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This version of Nicolo de' Conti's travels in Asia, in burma in particular, was annotated by Dr. Kennon Breazeale for the SOAs Bulletin of Burma Research.
Topics: Nicolo de' Conti, Kennon Breazeale, Burma, Myanmar, Pegu, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research
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"Colonel Heyland's observations on army horses and cavalry regiments in the final stages of the Third Anglo-Burmese War was originally published as a chapter(XVII) in History of the Third Burmese War, 1885, 1886, and 1887, in 1889." Edited for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney.
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Published in SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005.
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The following materials from Captain George Baker's diaries and other records and notes were originally published in Alexander Dalrymple's Oriental Repertory in 1808. Baker has left numerous other reports, many found in the Records of Fort St. George for the period. Baker's present account is especially useful for being one of the few first- hand accounts written by a European, of Alaunghpaya, the founder of the Konbaung Dynasty. Please note that "Persaim" here refers to the southern...
Topics: English traders, Indian, Bay of Bengal, George Baker, Ava, Bassein, Burma, Kusimara, Myanmar, SBBR,...
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Article by Stephen H. L. Keck published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research in 2005.
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This notice was originally published as "Diary of a Hill-Trip on the Borders of Arracan." By Lieutenant T. H. Lewins in 1867. Edited by Michael W. Charney for the SOAS Bulletin of burma Research.
Topics: T. H. Lewin, Arakan, Burma, Myanmar, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Michael W. Charney
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"Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna has left us an account of India and Burma from the very first decade of the sixteenth century, prior to the largescale of the First Taung-ngu Dynasty that would follow in the decades ahead. It thus provides a valuable insight into a period for which many foreign sources are not available. The original account, in Italian, was published at Rome on the 6th of December 1510 at the request of Lodovico de Henricis da Corneto of Vicenza by Stephano Guillireti de...
Topics: Ludovico di Varthema, Pegu, Italians, Burma, Burmah, Tenasserim, First Toungoo Dynasty, Myanmar,...
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This translation by Dr. Kennon Breazeale of Prince Naritsara Nuwattiwong's account of his travels in Burma in 1888 was published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research in 2005.
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This world list was included in the back matter of A True and Large Discourse of the Voyage of the Whole Fleete of Ships Set forth the 20 of Aprill 1601 by the Government and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London, to the East Indies, published for Thomas Thorpe by William Alpley of London in 1603. Curiously, the mission, which did come across ships in the Straits of Melaka, does not appear to have visited Pegu. There is no indication in the text of how or where the world list was...
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Article by Gerry Abbott on Captain H.R. Robinson and George Orwell (Eric Blair), published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research in Spring 2006.
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Published in the SOAs Bulletin of Burma Research 3.2 (Autumn, 2005).
Topics: William Buckland, John Crawfurd, Burma, Myanmar, Konbaung Dynasty, East India Company, Rangoon,...
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This translation of Hieronimo di Santo Stefano's journey to Pegu in 1495-1496 was originally published in India in the Fifteenth Century Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, edited by R. H. Major, in 1857. The account was written in the form of a letter to Messer Giovan Jacobo Mainer. Only those portions related to Burma have been included in the version below. Edited for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney.
Topics: HIERONIMO DI SANTO STEFANO, Genoa, Burma, Myanmar, Pegu, R. H. Major, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of Burma...
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These are extracts from the journal of Mr. Lovell Ingalls, a member of the American Baptist Mission to Burma are compiled from various entries in different numbers of the Baptist Missionary Magazine (earlier entitled the American Baptist Missionary Magazine). These numbers include issues 19.10 (October 1839), 20.1 (January 1840), and 20.4 (April 1840). Edited by Michael W. Charney, in SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005.
Topics: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, SBBR, Burma, Myanmar, Lovell Ingalls, Michael W. Charney
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"This is the second increment in the two-part series on the letters of James Alfred Colbeck. While the first part covered the years 1878-1879, the present letters include the years 1885-1888, when Colbeck returned to Upper Burma with British forces and served as both mission priest and as acting chaplain for British forces" Edited for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney.
Topics: Mandalay, Burma, Burmah, Third Anglo-Burmese War, James Alfred Colbeck, English, Myanmar, SBBR,...
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A report for the SBBR by Wil Dijk on holdings on Burma in the archives of the Dutch East India Company. Published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 1.1 (Spring 2003).
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Fergusson's note on a pagoda at Mingun. Published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004.
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Ensign Robert Lester's account of his embassy to Ava in 1757 was originally published in Alexander Dalrympleâs Oriental Repertory. It provides one of the few first-hand accounts of Alaung-hpaya and thus remains a valuable source on the reign and the beginnings of the Kon-baung Dynasty. Dalrympleâs italicization has been removed and dates have been expanded to include the month and year in order to avoid confusion. Edited by Michael W. Charney for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.
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Article by Jon Fernquest on early modern warfare in Burma, published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research in 2006.
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In December 1832, a contingent of American Baptist misisonaries, including Reverend Nathan Brown, Mrs. Brown, Mr. Webb, and Mrs. Webb, departed from Boston to join missionaries already at work in Burma. Five months later, they had only gone as far as Calcutta, from whence they would commence their final sea journey to British Tenasserim and it is from this point that correspondence from Nathan Brown begins. The following letters, sometimes in full and occasionally as extracts, were originally...
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In the collection of notes included here, âThe Palace at Peguâ has been extracted from Alexander Dalrympleâs introduction. As he explains of the origin of the note, âI find amongst my memos of information, received from Captain Baker, the following account of Pegu, which could not properly be introduced in any other place, and therefore I have inserted it here.â Edited by Michael W. Charney for SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Autumn 2005).
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"Cesar Fedrici travelled in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East in the 1560s-1580s and his account has been immensely influential in the literature. One reason for this, is that it is not given to the hyperbole of the near-contemporary account of Mendez Pinto and because of its great attention to detail concerning the state, its administrators, and trade at Pegu.Unfortunately Fedrici, who spent a considerable amount of time in Pegu and to a lesser extent in Martaban, in the late...
Topics: Cesar Fedrici, Venice, Pegu, First Toungoo Dynasty, Burmah, Burma, Martaban, Italians, Venetians,...
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Captain Alexander Hamilton collated an account of his voyage to Cambodia and Siam in 1718 with accounts of his experiences in Pegu and elsewhere on earlier travels, as well as information he had gathered about certain other locations (such as Arakan) in his A New Account of the East Indies (Edinburgh, 1727). While the original account also included accounts of parts of the Malay world and "Cochinchina," these have been excluded from the following text. The account begins with a brief...
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Treaty Between Alaung-hpaya and the British East India Company in 1757 published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2005.
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Marco Polo was the frst Western traveller to speak of Burma (Mien). His late thirteenth century account has been translated numerous times, one of the most popular editions being Henry Yule's (tr.) The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East in the nineteenth century and the revision of this translation by Henri Cordier in the early twentieth. The Yule- Cordier edition of 1903 is widely available in reprint. Less widely available is the present...
Topics: Burma, Mien, Myanmar, China, Yuan Dynasty, Pagan, Marco Polo, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of Burma...
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This translation of Athanasius Nikitin's fifteenth century travels to India was originally published in India in the Fifteenth Century Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, edited by R. H. Major, in 1857. Nikitin appears to have only included information on Burma which he obtained by word of mouth. His brief references to Pegu are provided below. The reference to Pegu has been standardized, as two different spellings were included in the original translation. Edited by Michael...
Topics: Pegu, Burma, Nikitin, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Michael W. Charney
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Originally published in the Rangoon Gazette and Weekly Budget 26 October 1888. Republished in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research [edited by Michael W. Charney].
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Review by Jon Fernquest published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research of Michael W. Charney's Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900.
Topics: Jon Fernquest, Warfare, Southeast Asia, SBBR, SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Michael W. Charney
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"This article by Francis Hamilton, also known as Francis Buchanan, first appeared in The Edinburgh Journal of Science (vol. 3, April-October, 1825, pp. 32-44). Despite its relatively late dating, Hamilton's understanding of the area and the people were not substantially different from those found in the his earlier diaries during his travels in the area in 1798." Edited by Michael W. Charney for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.
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Extracts by Augustus Keane on Burma in Standfordâs Compendium of Geography and Travel, published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.
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This brief account of Arracan was originally published in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie 5.35 & 36 (March-April) in 1826. Thus, its publication dates from the last year of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), although it was likely based on information preceding that conflict. Edited and introduced for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney.
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During his stay at Rangoon in the summer of 1826, Crawfurd drew up his account of this town, although it was not published until he included it in his account of his embassy made to the Burmese court in 1827, which was published in 1829. As Crawfurd explains: âThe following account of Rangoon was collected by me while I resided there in civil, charge of Pegu, a period of more than six months.â Edited by Michael W. Charney and published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2.
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Published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005. Edited by Michael W. Charney.
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The is is the account is one of many of the massacre at Negrais, an island close to Bassein where the English East India Company attempted to establish a factory in the mid-eighteenth century. Published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2.
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The following account of the induction ceremony for Buddhist monks was included as Appendix V in Michael Symes, An Acount of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India in the Year 1795 (London: W. Bulmer & Co., 496-500). Symes, then a major in the 76th Regiment, made numerous valuable observations on Burmese culture, society, government, and history. While it is clear that he did consult the accounts of other visitors to Burma, most of his material was derived...
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Daw Than Saw's translation of the Final Part of the Samuhadda Vicchedani, Relating to Debt, published in SOAS BULLETIN OF BURMA RESEARCH 5 2007 .
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"Henry Burney was a scholar, soldier, and diplomat well-known for his numerous contributions to the early British study of Burma as well as the source for equally numerous first-hand observations of the people and country. The following article was published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 4 (vol. 4, Juy, 1835, pp. 400-404)." Edited by Michael W. Charney for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.
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C. Horne's comments on Yule's notes on a pagoda at Mingun published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004.
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Survey of Burmese manuscripts in the UK and Ireland published in the SBBR in Spring 2004,
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Article by Alyssa Phillips on colonial Burmese history and historiography, published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research in 2005.
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This is a brief note drawn from Crawfurdâs 1826 Journal. Although brief, it offers an account of the origin of the use of âBarenâ that Burmese sometimes used to refer to the British. Published in the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005.
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Extract of a Letter dated Nagore, 7th July 1761 by William Turner; Memorandum of Arracan Trade, circa 1770s; History of the Mugs, 1777; Memorandum Regarding the Trade of Arracan and the Port of Akyab in the East Indies, Lat. 20q SâN Long 92q 56 1â4 E. (1849) by W. F. Nuthall. Edited for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney
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The following two entries appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine in December 1826. They offer some useful information both on Burma's looted textual heritage and on the confusion among the population after the war. Edited for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney.
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